Programme for the Nobel Symposium on Cosmic chemistry and Molecular Astrophysics, June 2006

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Symposium programme

	Saturday, 10 June 2006
10:00 - 24:00	Registration
20:00	Buffet dinner
	Sunday, 11 June 2006
08:45-10:35	Session I : Introductory session
08:45	Welcome address by the conference chairman
	Mats Larsson, Stockholm University
08:55	Introductory lecture (50 min + 5 min discussion)
	Alexander Dalgarno, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astronomy, USA
09:50	The chemistry of the early universe
	Francesco Palla, Osservatorio d'Arcetri, Italy
10:35-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session II: Formation and evolution of grains and reactions on
	their surfaces
	Chair: Ewine van Dishoeck, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
11:00	Grain surface chemistry and the composition of interstellar ice
	Alexander G. G. M. Tielens, NASA Ames Research Centre, USA
11:45	Formation of molecules on analogues of interstellar dust grains
	Gianfranco Vidali, University of Syracuse, USA
12:30-14:15	Lunch break
14:15-17:45	Session III: The structure and chemistry of interstellar
	clouds and star-forming regions
	Chair: René Liseau, Stockholm University
14:15	Molecules in Wonderland: Non-equilibrium processes in the
	interstellar medium
	John Black, Onsala Space Centre, Sweden
15:00	The chemistry of interstellar molecular clouds
	Tom J. Millar, Queen's University Belfast , UK
15:45-16:15	Coffee break
16:15	Hot cores and high mass star formation
	Malcolm Walmsley, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
17:00	So cold, so hot: Solar type embryos
	Cecilia Ceccarelli, Observatoire de Grenoble, France
18:30	Dinner
20:15-21:45	Session IV: Chemistry of the stellar environment
	Chair: Hans Olofsson, Stockholm University
20:15	Molecular evolution in star-forming cores and protoplanetary
	disks
	Yuri Aikawa, Kobe University, Japan
21:00	O-bearing molecular species in C-rich AGB stars and viceversa
	José Cernicharo, Instituto de Estructura de Materia, Madrid, Spain
	Monday, 12 June 2006
09:00-12:30	Session IV (cont.): Chemistry of the stellar environment
09:00	Physical processes and their chemical tracers in near-stellar
	environments
	David A. Williams, University College London, UK
09:45	Icy planetesimals
	Tobias Owen, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00	Chemistry in evolving protoplanetary disks
	Ewine F. van Dishoeck, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
11:45	Interstellar molecules in the protostellar environment:
	recent results from Spitzer
	David Neufeld, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
12:30-14:15	Lunch break
14:15-16:15	Press briefing and poster session (2 hours)
16:15-18:40	Session V: Hot topics in cosmic chemistry and molecular
	astrophysics
	Chair: Wolf D. Geppert, Stockholm University
16:15	Formation of H2 on models of interstellar grains
	David C. Clary, University of Oxford, UK
17:00	Recombination pathways and energy release in molecular
	hydrogen formation on graphitic surfaces.
	Liv Hornekaer, University of Aarhus, Denmark
17:25	Chemistry in protoplanetary disks.
	Thomas Henning, MPI for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
17:50	Non-equilibrium chemistry and dust formation in AGB-
	stars.
	Fredrik Schöier, Stockholm Observatory, Sweden
18:15	New Astronomy Highlights from the Odin Satellite.
	Åke Hjalmarson, Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
19:00	Dinner
	Tuesday, 13 June 2006
09:00-10:30	Session VI: Observational identification of molecular species in
	space
	Chair: J. Cernicharo, Instituto de Estructura de Materia, Madrid
09:00	Identification of interstellar molecules: Beating the confusion at mm and submm wavelengths Michel Guelin, IRAM, Grenoble, France
09:45	Infrared, millimeter & THz spectrosopy of interstellar molecules Geoff Blake, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session VII: Laboratory detection of interstellar molecules
	Chair: Takeshi Oka, University of Chicago, USA
11:00	Decoding IR spectra of cosmic ices and organics in the laboratory
	Louis Allamandola, NASA Ames Research Centre, USA
11:45	Laboratory detection of interstellar molecules
	Pat Thaddeus, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
12:30	Lunch
14:00-20:30	Excursion
	Wednesday, 14 June 2006
09:00-10:30	Session VIII: Kinetics and molecular dynamics of lowtemperature
	reactions
	Chair: E. Roueff, Observatory of Meudon, Paris
09:00	Isomerisation and dissociation of aromatic hydrocarbons
	Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
09:45	Experimental investigation of neutral-neutral reactions and
	energy transfer at lower temperatures
	Ian R. Sims, University of Rennes, France
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session IX: Experimental research into astrophysically
	important ions and their reactions
	Chair: Mats Larsson, Stockholm University
11:00	Interstellar H3+
	Takeshi Oka, University of Chicago, USA
11:45	Electron-cold molecular ion reactions using the heavy ion
	storage ring technique
	Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel and
	Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,
	Heidelberg, Germany
12:30	Lunch
14:15-15:45	Session X: Modelling of large chemical reaction networks
	Chair: Tom J. Millar, Queen's University Belfast , UK
14:15	The role of chemistry on granular surfaces in models of
	interstellar clouds
	Eric Herbst, Ohio State University, USA
15:00	Gas phase chemical networks:The influence of new chemical reaction
	studies versus models and the link to observations
	Evelyne Roueff, Observatory of Paris, France
15:45-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-17:45	Session XI: Extragalactic molecular observations:
	External galaxies and high red shift objects
	Chair: Patrick Thaddeus, Harvard University, USA
16:15	Studying galaxies and molecules at high redshifts
	Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Munich,
	Germany
17:00	Observed molecular gas properties at nearby galaxies
	Eva Schinnerer, MPIA Heidelberg, Germany
19:30	Conference Banquet
	After-dinner speaker: David A. Williams, University College London
	Thursday, 15 June 2006
09:00-10:30	Session XII: The chemistry of planetary atmopheres
	Chair: Alex Dalgarno, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
09:00	Photochemistry, dynamics and transport in planetary atmospheres in
	the outer solar system
	Darrel Strobel, Johns Hopkins University, USA
09:45	Highlights from the Cassini-Huygens-mission
	(20 min + 25 min discusion)
	Tobias Owen, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session XIII: A new frontier in space research-exobiochemistry
	Chair: Louis J. Allamandola, NASA Ames Research Centre, USA
11:00	From the origin of life to life in the universe
	André Brack, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Orléans, France
11:45	Strategies for life detection on Mars
	Pascale Ehrenfreund, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Departure of participants